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Area of Science:

  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Metaphysics
  • Consciousness Studies

Background:

  • Physicalism faces challenges from arguments based on conceivability, such as the zombie argument.
  • Philip Goff has proposed anti-physicalist arguments utilizing the conceivability of 'ghosts'—entities whose existence is solely consciousness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the conceivability of ghosts and its implications for physicalism.
  • To determine if the conceivability of ghosts provides a reliable basis for arguing against physicalism, both a priori and a posteriori.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of arguments concerning the conceivability of ghosts.
  • Drawing on existing work on conceivability and its relation to possibility (Kung, O'Conaill).
  • Examination of how the ability to stipulate conditions in conceivability scenarios affects the inference to metaphysical possibility.

Main Results:

  • Ghosts are indeed conceivable.
  • The cognitive mechanisms enabling the conception of ghosts (stipulation) do not guarantee their metaphysical possibility.
  • The conceivability of ghosts undermines its reliability as a guide to possibility.

Conclusions:

  • While the conceivability of ghosts challenges a priori physicalism, it does not necessarily refute a posteriori physicalism.
  • The argument suggests that physicalists, particularly a posteriori physicalists, need not be concerned by the ghost argument.